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Rumsfeld and Jesus Torturing Evildoers to Keep America Safe

May 20, 2009

ShareIt’s hard to imagine what Bush’s to-do list looked like, but I’m guessing it was probably something like this.

Campaign for President as an evangelical Christian: Check
“Win” the Presidential election after the only person at the only media outlet in the country to claim that you won the state your brother was the Governor of, was [...]

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Religion is hardwired into our brains, brains, BRAINS!

February 5, 2009

ShareApparently P.T. Barnum was wrong, there’s not a sucker born every minute.  There’s one born…well, everytime someone is born apparently.
Religion is part of human nature and our brains are hard wired to believe in God, scientists believe.
The evidence includes studies of babies and children which have shown the brain is programmed to think of the [...]

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Vatican forgives John Lennon for Jesus remark

November 23, 2008

ShareI’m sure the guy who wrote and sang, “and no religion too”, will finally be able to rest easy now that the Vatican has forgiven him.
“The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a ‘boast’ by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected [...]

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GOP’s Base Now Predominately Uneducated, Poor White Folk

November 14, 2008

ShareIt seems that the GOP’s current stance on social, cultural and religious issues is finally managing to weed out…well pretty much everyone who has an actual thought process:
Republicans have lost an enormous amount of support among upscale voters, basically just breaking even among those with household incomes above $50,000 a year, a traditional GOP stronghold. [...]

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Why We Must Not Let Palin Simply Fade Away

November 12, 2008

ShareAndrew Sullivan has been doing quite a number on Palin since the election, and his explanation for why he continues to do so is quite compelling:
Let’s be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. She was incapable [...]

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